Online plan to keep students healthy, motivated

Aiming to ensure that the students are healthy and motivated during the lockdown period, the HRD Ministry, Ayush Ministry and Fit India initiative of Sports Ministry have come together to keep the young ones across the country engaged with a series of indoor activities.

A senior HRD Ministry official said a online programme has been devised to motivate them to take up fitness and healthy living as a way of life as per the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Fit India’ programme.

The CBSE and Fit India Movement have collaborated to provide live fitness sessions by experts for school students during the lockdown. These sessions will be live on youtube, facebook, instagram daily from 9.30am on April 15, for a period of one month.

Students will be able to stream and download the live sessions from the YouTube channel of Fit India Movement. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ informed about this initiative through a tweet on Tuesday.